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Could Manborg be the cyborg-vs.-demons movie we’ve all been waiting for?

Hell has taken over the Earth, led by the evil Count Draculon, and the human resistance is utterly crushed. Until one dying soldier gets transformed into the ultimate engine of vengeance… Manborg! Uh, what? Manborg just had its debut at Fantastic Fest 2011, and it sounds like a major tribute to cyborg mastermind Albert Pyun.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 23 '11

WSJ Live Brings You Live News and On Demand Video on Your iPad

WSJ Live is an excellent app from the folks at the Wall Street Journal, it gives you access to live news about the Market, Tech and more AND also gives you access to the entire video archive of the WSJ. on demand videos. It’s like having the WSJ in video form (in fact, most of…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Daily Desired: These USB Controllers Help You Feel The Music

Making music just isn’t the same on computers. You can’t feel it. Digital tools can reproduce the loopy sounds of crazy old analog synths and drum machines, but they lack the raw analog physicality. These modular USB-controllers might help. The new Steinberg CMC series of USB controllers talk to your music production software. Everything about…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 23 '11

Real Steel Is an iPad Game Based on That Crazy Robot Fighting Movie

I don’t know how I feel about Real Steel, sometimes I’m brainwashed by robots beating the crap out of each other and other times I just think how ridiculous it is. It doesn’t matter when it comes to the iPad game though because it’s a basic fighting game, only with robots as the characters. You…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

The StingRay Is The Virtually Unknown Device the Government Uses to Track You Through Your Phone

There’s a battle going on in the U.S. judicial system over how much freedom the government should have in tracking us. At the center of this debate lies a device called the StingRay. According to the Wall Street Journal, the StingRay is a tracking device which is used to locate and follow anyone based on…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert Sep 23 '11

Use that built-up static electricity to create a shocking work of art

To mortal eyes, when an electric current hits an insulator, it stops. But actually it often creates art – it’s just art that we can’t see. Lichtenberg figures are branching patterns, like frozen lightning, that appear when electric discharge runs up against an insulator. You can make one of your own with static electricity and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 23 '11

Download VLC for Android…Sort Of

What’s great about Android is the talented devs who use the platform. Case in point: CVPCS, an Android dev, wanted to use VLC on his Android phone since he used VLC all the time on his desktop. So he built a pre-Alpha version for everyone to use. It’s a really early build so he won’t…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Most Embarrassing Deleted Scenes from Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies

We heard about all the scenes that were cut from Star Wars for years. And then, with the Blu-ray release, we finally got to see all of them… and we learned just why they were cut in the first place. Here are our picks for the most embarrassing or horrifying deleted scenes from science fiction…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Mandy Curtis Sep 23 '11

Hanging with Friends Is Words with Friends for Hangman Fans

Kotaku says Hanging with Friends is Zynga’s take on the ol’ classic Hangman game with elements of Scrabble and social thrown in for good measure. There’s some added features that help you figure out the puzzle and no worries if you have no friends to hang with as it’s easy as heck to find a…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Card.io Takes Credit Card Payments on Your Android Phone

Like Square, Card.io is a credit card machine for your phone. But unlike Square, which requires a dongle, Card.io just takes a picture of the credit card to grab all those digits for payment. It’s supposed to be secure and Card.io never saves your info, but it’s still a little worrying. In any case, it’s…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

National Football Post Keeps You Posted with the National Football League

The NFL season is well underway and for football fiends who can never get enough news on America’s sport, you can keep track with all the happenings with the National Football Post app. It’s all the content from the stellar website meaning you get new and rumors, features and all the fantasy tips you want.…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Irish court rules that a recent death was caused by spontaneous combustion

A man in Galway, Ireland apparently died of spontaneous combustion last year in December. At least, according to a court ruling this week. Michael Faherty’s death had been a mystery because coroners and police couldn’t explain how the fire that killed him only seemed to have burned the man and his immediate surroundings. Spontaneous combustion…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 23 '11

R-Type Brings Its 80’s Side Scrolling Shooting Nostalgia to Android

R-Type, the side-scrolling shooter classics of all classics, is finally on Android. If your memory fails you (mine did a little), you play as a futuristic space fighter trying to save the world by shooting damn near everything in your way. It’s just as you remembered both in graphics and content, with 8 levels, 3…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

How carnivorous plants could give us self-cleaning, self-repairing walls

There’s a long and storied tradition of scientists getting fantastic ideas from nature, as there are few finer testing labs than the requirements of natural selection. The newest breakthrough in materials science based on a plant is Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces — or SLIPS. And it could one day give us self-cleaning, self-repairing rooms, just…

io9 Tim Barribeau Sep 23 '11

This Remote Controlled UFO Is Your Conspiratorial Deal of the Day

I was abducted by aliens once when I was in college. I was walking home from class one night after a lecture on Shakespeare’s The Tempest or something. It was cool and breezy, as I remember. But then it got a whole lot more breezy. Out of nowhere, a strange looking craft swooped down and…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Sep 23 '11

Google+ Adds Hangouts to the Android App

Google+, the unsucky social network that I’m not sure any of my friends are actually using, has a sweet Hangout video chat feature that’s been missing on its Android app. No more. On Android 2.3+ phones with a front facing camera, Google+ users can see when their friends are video chatting and join the hangout.…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

More evidence that there’s no such thing as too much bubble wrap

Have you ever wondered how much bubble wrap you’d need to envelop yourself in to survive a 60-meter fall? Oh, what am I saying — of course you have. But I bet you’ve never actually sat down and worked through the physics to arrive at thoroughly reasoned answer. That’s where Wired’s Rhett Allain comes in.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 23 '11

Photos Day Gallery Groups Your Pictures in a Timeline

If you’re like me and have an obscenely large camera roll littered with thousands of useless pictures, it’s sort of a pain in the ass to find THAT ONE picture you really really want to find again. Scrolling through thousands of thumbnails just doesn’t make sense you know? Photo Days Gallery is an app that…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Appears On CNN

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle appeared in a taped piece on CNN Newsource on Friday September 23, 2011. Take a look at the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Tech News Scott Kidder Sep 23 '11

ATM in India Uses the Power of the Sun to Dispense Clean Water

If you had a cup of coffee, or glass of water this morning, consider yourself lucky. One in eight people on this planet have limited or no access to clean drinking water. In rural India an organization known as Piramal Water Private Limited hopes to bring that number down with a solar-powered ATM that dispenses…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Sep 23 '11

Could Manborg be the cyborg-vs.-demons movie we’ve all been waiting for?

WSJ Live Brings You Live News and On Demand Video on Your iPad

Daily Desired: These USB Controllers Help You Feel The Music

Real Steel Is an iPad Game Based on That Crazy Robot Fighting Movie

The StingRay Is The Virtually Unknown Device the Government Uses to Track You Through Your Phone

Use that built-up static electricity to create a shocking work of art

Download VLC for Android…Sort Of

Most Embarrassing Deleted Scenes from Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies

Hanging with Friends Is Words with Friends for Hangman Fans

Card.io Takes Credit Card Payments on Your Android Phone

National Football Post Keeps You Posted with the National Football League

Irish court rules that a recent death was caused by spontaneous combustion

R-Type Brings Its 80’s Side Scrolling Shooting Nostalgia to Android

How carnivorous plants could give us self-cleaning, self-repairing walls

This Remote Controlled UFO Is Your Conspiratorial Deal of the Day

Google+ Adds Hangouts to the Android App

More evidence that there’s no such thing as too much bubble wrap

Photos Day Gallery Groups Your Pictures in a Timeline

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Appears On CNN

ATM in India Uses the Power of the Sun to Dispense Clean Water

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